A focus on language test development: Expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests

    Hudson, Thom & Brown, J.D. (eds.)

    Hudson, T., & Brown, J. D. (2001). A focus on language test development: Expanding the language proficiency construct across a variety of tests. Honolulu, HI: Second Language Teaching & Curriculum Center, University of Hawai'i at Manoa.

    This volume presents eight research studies which introduce a variety of novel, non-traditional forms of second and foreign language assessment. To the extent possible, the studies also show the entire test development process, warts and all. These language testing projects not only demonstrate many of the types of problems that test developers run into in the real world but also afford the reader unique insights into the language test development process.

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